UMID might never have become a household name, but the company produced some of the more interesting mini-clamshell computers over the past few years, including the mBook line of devices. These little handheld devices looked like laptops, but with 5 inch displays and tiny keyboards, they were really probably better designed for handheld or tabletop […]
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Old School gaming on modern handheld PCs
Netbooks and ultra mobile PCs get panned sometimes because they’re not as powerful as larger computers which are often the same price or even cheaper. But you know what? Even a tiny device with a slow processor like the handheld UMID M1 are reasonably fast compared with an average computer from 10 or 15 years […]
UMID mbook Special Edition, now with faster CPU
The UMID mbook BZ is a mobile internet device with a QWERTY keyboard and a 4.8 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display. I have a habit of calling 10 inch netbooks “mini-laptops,” but this thing is best described as an itty bitty laptop. Now UMID has released a special edition of this little guy, with […]
UMID mBook BZ UMID 4.8 inch mini-laptop takes its top off for the FCC
The UMID mBook BZ is smaller than a typical netbook, yet it features netbook-like parts including a 1.2GHz Intel Atom Z515 processor, a solid state disk, Windows 7, and a 1024 x 600 pixel display. But unlike a typical netbook, the mBook BZ’s display is just 4.8 inches. The entire mini-notebooks measures just 6.3″ x […]
Sharp NetWalker PC-Z1: What you get when you shrink a netbook
Netbooks are small laptops. But the Sharp NetWalker PC-Z1 is small even by netbook standards. It’s probably safer to call this little computer with a 5 inch display a MID or Mobile Internet Device, but unlike many MIDs, it has a full QWERTY keyboard. You’re just going to need very tiny fingers to type properly […]
UMID: Mobile Internet Device with full keyboard
While the UMID MID is technically a MID or Mobile Internet Device and not a netbook, it’s clamshell design sort of makes me not care. This tiny little guy has a 4.8 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel touchscreen, an Intel Atom CPU running at 1.1GHz or 1.33GHz, 8GB to 32GB of solid state storage, and […]